Services

Graphic Recording & Visual Facilitation

• Do the great ideas and solid plans get lost shortly after your meetings end?
• Do people walk out of the room not quite on the same page?
• Does the energy fade fast after your events or celebrations?
• Do the signals of your next-best moves get lost in the noise of the day-to-day?

I can help.

Invite me into your room (in-person or over the internet) and I'll deeply listen and craft a visual in real-time which will resonate long after the room clears.

By capturing your conversations in real-time through text and visuals, I help groups see their own thinking, demonstrate that every voice is being heard, and surface themes and connections that might otherwise be missed.

Examples of my work:

Coaching

It took trillions of small things... actions, experiences, decisions, evolution, and luck to bring you here. You're alive and already enough. What you want and need is already inside you.

My coaching will evoke and gently provoke you to create the conditions for what you want and need to emerge. I can't heal your trauma or see the future. But together we can design experiments for you to learn from.

How Coaching works

• We have a kick-off call (free) to see if we're a good fit for each other
• If so, we make a 1, 3, or 12 month long agreement, and you pay me
• We talk on the telephone once a week
• You bring the agenda for each call
• On the calls, you speak and I listen. I will ask you provocative and evocative questions. Before we end each call we create an experiment for you to run before the next call
• Throughout the agreement we share reasonable amounts of asynchronous communication (email or txt's)
• We consistently provide feedback to each other to ensure you're getting the most out of this
• We close the agreement and figure out what's next

What people say

You definitely helped me stay positive that I can eventually do it as long as I didn't give up. thanks ... I wouldn't have made it this far without you ...

1 session with Chad helped me reassess and refocus my creative energies, and helped me unlock an incredible piece of music that was waiting to be born!

Team advisory, coaching, and facilitation

Based on my own history of work in complex environments, I can help teams with:

Creative burnout and the human side of creative work "Our best people are running dry and we don't know how to help them get their spark back."

Making invisible complexity visible so creative teams can move "We're stuck and we can't see clearly enough to know why or what to do next."

Building and scaling a creative team or school "We're growing faster than our culture and structure can keep up with."

Helping creative people adopt new ways of working without killing the culture "We need to change how we work but we're terrified of losing what makes us good."

Moving creative teams from technical silos to collaborative capability "Our teams are excellent at their craft but need help working with each other."

Helping leaders at a fork make a directional decision "I have to make a decision that could change everything and I can't think clearly about it alone."

What people say

You created an environment where it was safe and comforting for people like me to speak up. That in itself is the most precious thing IMO.

"I've already incorporated some of the wisdom from the [workshop] into my own creative problem solving. "Working from abundance" being a novel, and extremely helpful way of thinking"

"The storytelling exercises provided excellent insight, providing new ways to think about things from a different perspective"

"I thought this session was a great use of time and got the group up and collaborating together"